Testo Intro

One should not embellish or dress up Christianity; it has waged a war to the death against this higher type of man. It has excommunicated all the fundamental instincts of this type, it has distilled evil, the Evil One, out of these instincts--the strong human beings as the type of reprehensibility, as the 'outcast.' Christianity has taken the side of everything weak, base, ill-constituted, it has made an ideal out of opposition to the preservative instincts of strong life; it has depraved the reason even of the intellectually strongest natures by teaching men to feel the supreme values of intellectuality as sinful, as misleading, as temptations